A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration

doi:10.1073/pnas.2111091119

A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration

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Original language	English
Article number	e2111091119
Journal	Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Volume	119
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2111091119
Publication status	Published (VoR) - 31 May 2022

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COVID-19
behavior change
health communication
motivation
self-determination theory

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title = "A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic",

keywords = "COVID-19, behavior change, health communication, motivation, self-determination theory",

author = "{Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration} and Nicole Legate and Nguyen, {Thuy Vy} and Netta Weinstein and Arlen Moller and Lisa Legault and Zahir Vally and Zuzanna Tajchman and Zsido, {Andras N.} and Miha Zrimsek and Zhang Chen and Ignazio Ziano and Zoi Gialitaki and Basnight-Brown, {Dana M.} and Ceary, {Chris D.} and Yuna Jang and Hans IJzerman and Yijun Lin and Yoshihiko Kunisato and Yuki Yamada and Qinyu Xiao and Xiaoming Jiang and Xinkai Du and Elvin Yao and Ryan, {William S.} and Wilson, {John Paul} and Wilson Cyrus-Lai and William Jimenez-Leal and Wilbert Law and Wenceslao Unanue and Collins, {W. Matthew} and Richard, {Karley L.} and Marek Vranka and Vladislav Ankushev and Vidar Schei and Veronika Lerche and Vanja Kovic and Valerija Krizanic and Kadreva, {Veselina Hristova} and Adoric, {Vera Cubela} and Tran, {Ulrich S.} and Yeung, {Siu Kit} and Widad Hassan and Ralph Houston and Urry, {Heather L.} and Machin, {Michael A.} and Lima, {Tiago J.S.} and Thomas Ostermann and Thomas Frizzo and Sverdrup, {Therese E.} and Panagiotis Rentzelas",

note = "Funding Information: Foundation for Science and Technology (grant agreement ref. UIDP/4950/2020; I. Almeida, A. Ferreira, D. Sousa); PhD grant co-funded by the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology and the European Social Fund (Ref. 2020.08597.BD; A. Ferreira); Horizon 2020 Research Project (European grant agreement ID: 731827, STIPED - Stimulation in Pediatrics - Transcranial brain stimulation as innovative therapy for chronic pediatric neuropsychiatric disorders; D. Sousa); Internal funding from Kingston University (A. Gourdon-Kanhu-kamwe); the Slovak Research and Development Agency under grant contract no. APVV-17-0596 (A. Findor); Pacifica and the Association Nationale Recherche Technologie through CIFRE (Conventions Industrielles de Formation par la Recherche) grant 2017/0245 (A. Bran); Scholarships of the President of Wroc{\l}aw Funding Information: (Wincenty Stys scholarship in the field of humanities and social sciences, 2021/ 2022; Marta Kowal); Special Research Fund of Ghent University grant (COV035-20 BOF; B. Soenens and M. Vansteenkiste); a special grant from the Association for Psychological Science (to the Psychological Science Accelerator); an in-kind purchase from the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (protocol https://www. psycharchives.org/handle/20.500.12034/2631); a fee waiver from Prolific, Inc. Further financial support was provided by the Psychological Science Accelerator. We thank the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) for help with data collection via the organization and implementation of semi-representative panels. Funders had no other roles in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. Funding Information: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. This work was supported by the following sources: European Union{\textquoteright}s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, grant agreement No 769595 (F. Verbruggen); Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP16H03079, JP17H00875, JP18K12015, and JP20H04581 (Y. Yamada); Research Grant Education University of Hong Kong 28611118 from the Research Grant Council, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (W. Law); the Japanese Psychological Association, Grant for research and practical activities related to the spread of the novel coronavirus to (T. Ishii; A. Kunisato; N. Sunami; K. Ihaya); Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (# 950-224884; T. Gill); Program FUTURE LEADER of Lorraine Universit{\'e}d{\textquoteright}Excellence within the program Investissements Avenir (ANR-15-IDEX-04-LUE) operated by the French National Research Agency (S. Massoni); the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology (UID/PSI/03125/2020; R.R. Ribeiro); the Australian Research Council (DP180102384; R.M. Ross); a PhD grant from Fundac¸{\~a}o para a Ci{\^e}ncia e Tecnologia (PD/BD/150570/2020; R. Oliveira); a French National Research Agency “Investissements d{\textquoteright}avenir” program grant (ANR-15-IDEX-02) awarded to H. IJzerman (supporting P.S. Forscher); Vidi Grant 452-17-013 from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (P.M. Isager); the Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-19-0284 (P. Ka≤cm{\'a}r, M. Hricov{\'a}); the Slovak Research and Development (project number APVV-17-0418; P. Babin≤c{\'a}k); the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology (UID/PSI/03125/ 2020; P. Arriaga); the Huo Family Foundation (N. Johannes); the research grant program “Dipartimenti di Eccellenza” from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) to the Department of General Psychology of the University of Padua (N. Cellini; G. Mioni); CAPES (Coordenac¸{\~a}o de Aperfeic¸oamento de Pessoal de {\'N}ıvel Superior), number PNPD 3002010037P0 – MEC/CAPES (M.A. Varella); Charles University Research Programme {"}Progres{"} Q18 (M. Vranka); Polish National Science Center & Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Beethoven grant (2016/23/G/HS6/01775; M. Parzuchowski); the Foundation for Polish Science (A. Groyecka-Bernard; M. Misiak); Polish National Science Centre (2020/36/T/HS6/00256; M. Misiak; 2020/36/T/HS6/00254; A. Groyecka-Bernard); Research Grant from Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University (M. Kossowska, G. Czarnek, P. Szwed), Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-18-0140 (M. Marton≤cik); the Slovak Research and Development Agency under grant contract no. APVV-17-0596 (M. Hru≤ska); Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-20-0319 (M. Adamkovi≤c); NSF #1734815 - NRT-UtB: {"}Graduate Training Program in Sensory Science: Optimizing the Information Available for Mind and Brain{"}, grant from NSF to University of Minnesota (M. Manavalan); Rubicon Grant (019.183SG.007) from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (K. van Schie); the National Science Centre, Poland (grant no: UMO-2019/35/B/HS6/00528; K. Barzykowski); National Agency of Research and Development Millennium Science Initiative /Millennium Institute for Research on Depression and Personality-MIDAP ICS13_005 FONDECYT 1191708 (J.R. Silva); Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (2016:0229; J.K. Olofsson); the Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-15-0662 (J.Benka); the Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute (J.A. Soto); Penn State's Office of the Senior Faculty Mentor (J.A. Soto); German National Academic Foundation (J. Berkessel); the Scientific Grant Agency of the Slovak Republic under the grant No. VEGA 1/0748/19 (J. Bavolar); Chair for Public Trust in Health, Grenoble Ecole de Management (I. Ziano); PRIMUS/20/HUM/ 009 (I. Ropovik); Tufts University (H. Urry); the National Institute of Mental Health T32MN018931 (H. Moshontz); APVV-17-0418 (G. Banik); J. William Fulbright Program (F. Azevedo); the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research—Division for the Social Sciences 451-15-028 (E.S. Smit); Amazon Web Services Imagine Grant (E.M. Buchanan); the Basic Research Program at HSE University, RF (D. Grigor-yev); the Basic Research Program at HSE University, RF (D. Dubrov), the Basic Research Program at HSE University, RF (E. Agadullina). Contract no. APVV-18-0140 ; the Research Council of Norway 288083, 223273 (C.K. Tamnes); the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority 2019069, 2021070, 500189 (C.K. Tamnes); the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority grant no. 2020023 (A. Askelund); EFOP-3.6.1.-16-2016-00004, {\'U}NKP-21-4 and NKFIH “OTKA” PD-137588 by the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (A.N. Zsido); Faculty Development Grant from Dominican University (A. Krafnick & R. Calin-Jageman); Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology SFRH/BD/126304/2016 (A.C. Santos); the statutory funds of the University of Wroclaw (A. Sorokowska); CIBIT - Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research funding by the Portuguese National Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.",

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T1 - A global experiment on motivating social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic

AU - Psychological Science Accelerator Self-Determination Theory Collaboration

AU - Legate, Nicole

AU - Nguyen, Thuy Vy

AU - Weinstein, Netta

AU - Moller, Arlen

AU - Legault, Lisa

AU - Vally, Zahir

AU - Tajchman, Zuzanna

AU - Zsido, Andras N.

AU - Zrimsek, Miha

AU - Chen, Zhang

AU - Ziano, Ignazio

AU - Gialitaki, Zoi

AU - Basnight-Brown, Dana M.

AU - Ceary, Chris D.

AU - Jang, Yuna

AU - IJzerman, Hans

AU - Lin, Yijun

AU - Kunisato, Yoshihiko

AU - Yamada, Yuki

AU - Xiao, Qinyu

AU - Jiang, Xiaoming

AU - Du, Xinkai

AU - Yao, Elvin

AU - Ryan, William S.

AU - Wilson, John Paul

AU - Cyrus-Lai, Wilson

AU - Jimenez-Leal, William

AU - Law, Wilbert

AU - Unanue, Wenceslao

AU - Collins, W. Matthew

AU - Richard, Karley L.

AU - Vranka, Marek

AU - Ankushev, Vladislav

AU - Schei, Vidar

AU - Lerche, Veronika

AU - Kovic, Vanja

AU - Krizanic, Valerija

AU - Kadreva, Veselina Hristova

AU - Adoric, Vera Cubela

AU - Tran, Ulrich S.

AU - Yeung, Siu Kit

AU - Hassan, Widad

AU - Houston, Ralph

AU - Urry, Heather L.

AU - Machin, Michael A.

AU - Lima, Tiago J.S.

AU - Ostermann, Thomas

AU - Frizzo, Thomas

AU - Sverdrup, Therese E.

AU - Rentzelas, Panagiotis

N1 - Funding Information: Foundation for Science and Technology (grant agreement ref. UIDP/4950/2020; I. Almeida, A. Ferreira, D. Sousa); PhD grant co-funded by the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology and the European Social Fund (Ref. 2020.08597.BD; A. Ferreira); Horizon 2020 Research Project (European grant agreement ID: 731827, STIPED - Stimulation in Pediatrics - Transcranial brain stimulation as innovative therapy for chronic pediatric neuropsychiatric disorders; D. Sousa); Internal funding from Kingston University (A. Gourdon-Kanhu-kamwe); the Slovak Research and Development Agency under grant contract no. APVV-17-0596 (A. Findor); Pacifica and the Association Nationale Recherche Technologie through CIFRE (Conventions Industrielles de Formation par la Recherche) grant 2017/0245 (A. Bran); Scholarships of the President of Wrocław Funding Information: (Wincenty Stys scholarship in the field of humanities and social sciences, 2021/ 2022; Marta Kowal); Special Research Fund of Ghent University grant (COV035-20 BOF; B. Soenens and M. Vansteenkiste); a special grant from the Association for Psychological Science (to the Psychological Science Accelerator); an in-kind purchase from the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (protocol https://www. psycharchives.org/handle/20.500.12034/2631); a fee waiver from Prolific, Inc. Further financial support was provided by the Psychological Science Accelerator. We thank the Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) for help with data collection via the organization and implementation of semi-representative panels. Funders had no other roles in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the manuscript. Funding Information: ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. This work was supported by the following sources: European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, grant agreement No 769595 (F. Verbruggen); Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science JP16H03079, JP17H00875, JP18K12015, and JP20H04581 (Y. Yamada); Research Grant Education University of Hong Kong 28611118 from the Research Grant Council, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (W. Law); the Japanese Psychological Association, Grant for research and practical activities related to the spread of the novel coronavirus to (T. Ishii; A. Kunisato; N. Sunami; K. Ihaya); Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (# 950-224884; T. Gill); Program FUTURE LEADER of Lorraine Universitéd’Excellence within the program Investissements Avenir (ANR-15-IDEX-04-LUE) operated by the French National Research Agency (S. Massoni); the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology (UID/PSI/03125/2020; R.R. Ribeiro); the Australian Research Council (DP180102384; R.M. Ross); a PhD grant from Fundac¸ão para a Ciência e Tecnologia (PD/BD/150570/2020; R. Oliveira); a French National Research Agency “Investissements d’avenir” program grant (ANR-15-IDEX-02) awarded to H. IJzerman (supporting P.S. Forscher); Vidi Grant 452-17-013 from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (P.M. Isager); the Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-19-0284 (P. Ka≤cmár, M. Hricová); the Slovak Research and Development (project number APVV-17-0418; P. Babin≤cák); the Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology (UID/PSI/03125/ 2020; P. Arriaga); the Huo Family Foundation (N. Johannes); the research grant program “Dipartimenti di Eccellenza” from the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) to the Department of General Psychology of the University of Padua (N. Cellini; G. Mioni); CAPES (Coordenac¸ão de Aperfeic¸oamento de Pessoal de Ńıvel Superior), number PNPD 3002010037P0 – MEC/CAPES (M.A. Varella); Charles University Research Programme "Progres" Q18 (M. Vranka); Polish National Science Center & Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Beethoven grant (2016/23/G/HS6/01775; M. Parzuchowski); the Foundation for Polish Science (A. Groyecka-Bernard; M. Misiak); Polish National Science Centre (2020/36/T/HS6/00256; M. Misiak; 2020/36/T/HS6/00254; A. Groyecka-Bernard); Research Grant from Institute of Psychology, Jagiellonian University (M. Kossowska, G. Czarnek, P. Szwed), Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-18-0140 (M. Marton≤cik); the Slovak Research and Development Agency under grant contract no. APVV-17-0596 (M. Hru≤ska); Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-20-0319 (M. Adamkovi≤c); NSF #1734815 - NRT-UtB: "Graduate Training Program in Sensory Science: Optimizing the Information Available for Mind and Brain", grant from NSF to University of Minnesota (M. Manavalan); Rubicon Grant (019.183SG.007) from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (K. van Schie); the National Science Centre, Poland (grant no: UMO-2019/35/B/HS6/00528; K. Barzykowski); National Agency of Research and Development Millennium Science Initiative /Millennium Institute for Research on Depression and Personality-MIDAP ICS13_005 FONDECYT 1191708 (J.R. Silva); Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (2016:0229; J.K. Olofsson); the Slovak Research and Development Agency APVV-15-0662 (J.Benka); the Sherwin Early Career Professor in the Rock Ethics Institute (J.A. Soto); Penn State's Office of the Senior Faculty Mentor (J.A. Soto); German National Academic Foundation (J. Berkessel); the Scientific Grant Agency of the Slovak Republic under the grant No. VEGA 1/0748/19 (J. Bavolar); Chair for Public Trust in Health, Grenoble Ecole de Management (I. Ziano); PRIMUS/20/HUM/ 009 (I. Ropovik); Tufts University (H. Urry); the National Institute of Mental Health T32MN018931 (H. Moshontz); APVV-17-0418 (G. Banik); J. William Fulbright Program (F. Azevedo); the Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research—Division for the Social Sciences 451-15-028 (E.S. Smit); Amazon Web Services Imagine Grant (E.M. Buchanan); the Basic Research Program at HSE University, RF (D. Grigor-yev); the Basic Research Program at HSE University, RF (D. Dubrov), the Basic Research Program at HSE University, RF (E. Agadullina). Contract no. APVV-18-0140 ; the Research Council of Norway 288083, 223273 (C.K. Tamnes); the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority 2019069, 2021070, 500189 (C.K. Tamnes); the South-Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority grant no. 2020023 (A. Askelund); EFOP-3.6.1.-16-2016-00004, ÚNKP-21-4 and NKFIH “OTKA” PD-137588 by the National Research, Development and Innovation Fund (A.N. Zsido); Faculty Development Grant from Dominican University (A. Krafnick & R. Calin-Jageman); Portuguese National Foundation for Science and Technology SFRH/BD/126304/2016 (A.C. Santos); the statutory funds of the University of Wroclaw (A. Sorokowska); CIBIT - Coimbra Institute for Biomedical Imaging and Translational Research funding by the Portuguese National Publisher Copyright: © 2022 National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.

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